Bug 130696 - Add option for mkinitrd to add raid files for initrds builded for remote machines
Summary: Add option for mkinitrd to add raid files for initrds builded for remote mach...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Minor (vote)
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Assignee: Hannes Reinecke
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Reported: 2005-10-26 06:56 UTC by Thomas Renninger
Modified: 2006-03-20 16:09 UTC (History)
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Logs of the machine bartok after yast tries to setup partitions (68.82 KB, application/x-bzip2)
2006-01-18 14:49 UTC, Thomas Renninger 		Details
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Description Thomas Renninger 2005-10-26 06:56:49 UTC 
An option like -r would be nice that adds raid specific binaries to the initrd even if the system itself has no raid configured.

Problem:
Building kernel/initrd on a remote machine and let another machine boot those via PXE fails on raid systems.

Are there any other binaries or whatever that could be missing (for something else than a raid) for building initrds for remote machines?
Comment 1 Hannes Reinecke 2005-12-19 10:25:05 UTC 
This is not feasible in general as we need to include any controller / drive specific modules as well.

However, it's probably not a bad idea to select the any available feature from the command-line option.
Comment 2 Thomas Renninger 2006-01-18 14:49:30 UTC 
Created attachment 63831 [details]
Logs of the machine bartok after yast tries to setup partitions

Be aware that this time the raid arrays were tried to be freshly installed by Frank. It seems as if Yast does not only recognise old Raid arrays, but even cannot setup new ones any more?
For details to these logs ask Frank.
The machine's name is *bartok*, it is up and running with one disk at the moment and SLES10-PRE4.
Comment 3 Hannes Reinecke 2006-03-20 16:09:10 UTC 
There is now an option '-f' which lets you enable additional features.
new rpm queued for Beta9.